RE: WG Review: Open Pluggable Edge Services (opes)

[Scott Brim]

Publishers lose control of how a resource is treated but still
(optionally) retain control over the resource itself, e.g. through
watermarks.  I doubt that publishers care if their content is carried
over Ethernet or ATM today.  How much do publishers care how their
content is encapsulated, routed, encoded, etc.?  What do you think OPES
could do that a publisher (1) would be concerned about, and (2) could
not protect against?

...Scott

On 18 Jun 2001 at 12:51 -0700, Mark Nottingham apparently wrote:
> As such, the OPES goals break end-to-end transparency at the
> application layer. As a result, (using HTTP as an example, because it
> seems the first target of OPES), the publisher loses control over a
> resource once it leaves their server. It then becomes impossible to
> makes statements about that resource (e.g., P3P, Semantic Web, legal
> status of a resource, etc.).